An London reception has celebrated creative openness by allowing approximately forty people inside and leaving the rest to establish their relevance on the pavement.
The guest list is said to recognise emerging talent, established talent and people whose assistants can sound offended on the telephone.
A clipboard attendant explained that a name being on the list did not necessarily mean it was on the correct list. There were several lists, including one for people who should not be told about the others.
Guests with invitations were asked who had invited them. Guests without invitations adopted the expression of people for whom that question was professionally insulting.
Inside, attendees praised the democratisation of fashion while eating canapés small enough to suggest that even the food had been carefully selected.
One influencer spent twenty minutes filming the room before announcing a wish to protect its intimate atmosphere.
Organisers insist the evening was about community. The community in question will be reviewed before the next event, when some current members may discover they were a temporary activation.
A public version is being considered, provided it can be held somewhere the actual public is unlikely to find.
